Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
FOREWORD
AUTONOMY
Margarita Munoz (Panama)
Fighting machismo and US intervention
Jael Bueno (Bolivia)
'No one wants to be machista anymore.' The rise of Bolivian feminism
Yance Urbina (El Salvador)
Building a feminist organisation inside the social movement
Alba de Mejia (Honduras)
Demanding women's rights in the shadow of the military
Olga Benoit and Marie Frantz Joachim (Haiti)
SOFA: A forum for rural women and market sellers

DEBATING THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Elizabeth Maier (Mexico)
Sex and class as a single entity
Carmen Alicia Echeverry, Nedier Gamba, Gladys Lagos (Colombia)
In support of steelworkers: a wives' or women's organisation?
Maritza Villavicencio (Peru)
The feminist movement and the social movement: willing partners?
Maria Amelia Teles (Brazil)
A feminist perspective on power and population control

RECLAIMING POLITICS
Marfa Dirlene T. Marques (Brazil)
Feminists in the Workers' Party
Petrona Coronel (Paraguay)
Women leading the Paraguay Peasants' Movement
Claudia Colimoro (Mexico)
A prostitute's election campaign
Marfa Teresa Blandon (Nicaragua)
The impact on the Sandinista defeat on Nicaraguan feminism
Carolina Aguilar and Alicia Chenard (Cuba)
Is there a place for feminism in the revolution?

HUMAN RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Rosalina Tuyuc (Guatemala)
From grief comes strength: indigenous women's resistance
Rosario Ibarra (Mexico)
The search for disappeared sons: how it changed the mothers
Chabela (Vicenta) Camusso (Uruguay)
Black women in a white world: the search for a new identity
Lady Elizabeth Repetto (Uruguay)
Women against violence against women
Eulalia Yagarf Gonzalez (Colombia)
The right to love and politics: an indigenous activist's perspective

FEMINIST PUBLICATIONS
Zoila Hernandez (Peru)
Mujer y Sociedad: writing for a mass audience
Lucy Garrido and Lilian Abracinskas (Uruguay)
Cotidiano Mujer: a platform for the women's movement
Marta Lamas (Mexico)
Debate Feminista: a bridge between academia and activism
Berta Hiriart (Mexico)
mujerlfempress: Latin American women's news agency

WHERE NEXT?
Gladys Acosta (Peru)
Feminism and the New World Order
Sofia Montenegro (Nicaragua)
The future from a female point of view

Acronyms
Resources and Action
Index
Further Reading

About the Author

Gaby Kuppers is an editor at the Information Bureau for Latin America in Bonn.